Lead Technician - Commercial HVAC

Pompano Beach
FULL TIME
17 hours ago
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JOB DESCRIPTION

Location: Southeast, FL (serving tri-county area)
About Us Air Force HVAC has been a trusted name in South Florida for over 5 years, delivering reliable residential HVAC service, installation, and maintenance across Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach counties. Our slogan, “Your Home, Our Mission,” guides everything we do.

We are on track to grow 8x year-over-year at the top line as we expand our technician team, client base, and service offerings. To achieve this ambitious growth, we are seeking a hands-on Field Service Manager to help us scale with excellence, develop leaders, and ensure operational discipline.
 

Speed, craftsmanship, and consistency are non-negotiable in this position.

Primary Accountabilities

  • Perform complex commercial HVAC service, diagnostics, repairs, commissioning support, preventive maintenance, and installation support.
  • Serve as the escalation point for difficult technical calls and validate diagnoses through measurements, operating data, schematics, and sequence of operation.
  • Mentor developing technicians, reinforce proper diagnostic methodology, and identify recurring training or performance gaps.
  • Coordinate professionally with property managers, building engineers, facility teams, general contractors, and commercial clients.
  • Maintain complete job documentation, equipment data, readings, photographs, parts requirements,
  • recommendations, and job-status communication.
  • Maintain company vehicle, tools, test instruments, and field resources in professional, job-ready condition.
  • Commercial Systems Competency
  • Strong field competency is expected across multiple commercial system categories, including:
  • Packaged rooftop units (RTUs) and commercial split systems
  • Water-source heat pumps (WSHP) and condenser-water-loop systems
  • VRF/VRV systems and variable-capacity commercial equipment
  • VAV systems, commercial air distribution, outside air, ventilation, and economizers
  • Chilled-water fan coils, air handlers, hydronic heating/cooling systems, pumps, and control valves
  • Cooling towers and associated condenser-water systems
  • Commercial electrical systems, controls, VFDs, sensors, safeties, and BAS/DDC fundamentals


Technical Standard
Candidates must demonstrate the ability to distinguish equipment-level failures from broader building-system
conditions. Diagnosis should integrate refrigeration, electrical, airflow, controls, water flow, heat transfer, and
manufacturer operating data rather than rely on assumption or unnecessary component replacement.

  • Refrigeration: pressures, saturation temperatures, superheat, subcooling, temperature split, metering, compressor performance, and heat-transfer conditions.
  • Electrical/Controls: high- and low-voltage circuits, transformers, relays, contactors, motors, safeties, sensors, transducers, VFDs, control boards, communication circuits, and wiring diagrams.
  • Hydronic/Water-Side: entering/leaving water temperatures, water flow, strainers, valves, pumps, condenser-water loops, chilled-water systems, and cooling-tower interaction.
  • Airflow: static pressure, blower performance, VAV operation, duct restrictions, ventilation, outside air, and air-balancing fundamentals.


Required Qualifications

  • 10+ years of hands-on HVAC field experience with meaningful commercial service exposure.
  • Demonstrated independent troubleshooting and diagnostic capability.
  • EPA Section 608 certification and valid driver's license.
  • Ability to read electrical schematics, technical literature, and sequence-of-operation documentation.
  • Comfort with digital field-service platforms, mobile documentation, photographs, work orders, and electronic communication.
  • Ability to work safely in rooftops, mechanical rooms, high-rise/commercial environments, and other field conditions.
  • Bilingual communication skills strongly preferred; English/Spanish proficiency is highly desirable for South Florida commercial operations and customer coordination.
  • Must possess and maintain the minimum professional hand tools and HVAC diagnostic instruments required to independently perform commercial service and troubleshooting; company-provided specialty equipment may be supplied as applicable.


Preferred Qualifications

  • Manufacturer training is valued, but transferable commercial-system competency is more important than any single brand.
  • VRF/VRV, WSHP, RTU, VAV, chilled-water, hydronic, cooling-tower, BAS/DDC, and VFD experience.
  • High-rise, multifamily, hospitality, healthcare, institutional, or commercial retrofit experience.
  • Track record of mentoring technicians or leading commercial installations and commissioning.


Success Profile
The right technician diagnoses before replacing, measures before assuming, understands sequence of operation,
knows when a problem belongs to the equipment versus the building system, uses technical resources intelligently,
takes ownership through completion and can teach another technician the reasoning behind the repair.

Compensation &; Benefits
Base Salary: $65,000–$85,000, based on demonstrated experience and technical capability.
Benefits include health, dental and vision coverage; PTO and sick time; company vehicle where applicable; company technology and field resources; performance-based opportunities; and advancement within a growing commercial operation.

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POSTED ON
September 21, 2026